Improvement in necktie-supporters



NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE K. SNOV, OF WATERTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND MARCH BROS., PIERCE & OO.

IMPROVEMENT IN NECKTIE-SUPPORTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 46,426, dated February 14, 1865.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, GEORGE K. SNOW, ot" Watertown, in the county of'MiddleseX and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful OravatBow or Neeksearf Supporter; and I do hereby declare the same to ne fully described in the4 following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figures 1, 2, and 3 are views of it in its dit`A ferent Forms as contemplated by me, it being made of elastic wire, bent into either of such shapes. Each of the said forms embraces my invention, and they are given as so many modes of carrying out that principle by which the said invention may be distinguished from others of like character. The purpose of the device in question is to support a cravat-bow or scarf in place when applied to the collar or front of a shirt. To accomplish this purpose I take a piece of wire ofsufficient length and bendit into either of the forms shown in the figures-that is to say, into bow attachments a a, a socket or saddle, b, and springs or elastic arms c c. The bow attachmentsaa may be hooks, as shown in Figs. land 3, or eyes,as shown in Fig. 2, each being for the purpose of connecting the scarf or cravat-bow to the supporter. When either of the supporters shown in Figs. l and 3 is used, the parts a a are simply to be hooked into the bow or scart' on its rear side, but when the supporter shown in Fig. 2 is employed its eyes a a are to bev sewed to the scarf or bow. The recess or saddle b is intended to straddle the shank of the neckbandbutton, or the fasteningby which such button may be connected to the neckband of a shirt. When the neckbandbutton may be at the rear of the neck of the wearer of the shirt, a button havingr an eye may be employed to hold the collar in place on the neck ot' the person, in which case the eye of the button should be passed through the front button-holes of the collar. and an open ring should afterward be put into the eye ot' the button in order to maintain the button in connection with the collar. The springs or elastic arms cc are to extend up underneath the front folds or laps ofthe collar, theelasticity of such arms or of the remaining parts of the supporter serving to press the part bdownward on the button-shank, as well as to press the arms upward into place against those parts of the collar where the bends of the folds are made.

My invention affords a cheap and readymeans of supporting a cravat bow or scarf in its place relatively to the collar of a shirt.

I claim- The said bow or scarf supporter as composed of the bow attachments a a, the buttonsocket or saddle b, and the elastic arms c c, the whole being made of wire or its equivalent, substantially as specied.

GEORGE K..k SNOW. Witnesses:

- It. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr. 

